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Stith Thompson Motif Index
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Stith Thompson's Motif-Index of Folk-Literature classifies recurring narrative elements in folktales, myths, legends, ballads and related traditional narratives. Each entry below gives Thompson's motif reference and the description recorded in the index.
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Mythological Motifs
B
Animal Motifs
C
Motifs of Tabu
D
Magic
E
The Dead
F
Marvels
G
Ogres
H
Tests
J
The Wise and the Foolish
K
Deceptions
L
Reversals of Fortune
M
Ordaining the Future
N
Chance and Fate
P
Society
Q
Rewards and Punishments
R
Captives and Fugitives
S
Unnatural Cruelty
T
Sex
U
The Nature of Life
V
Religion
W
Traits of Character
X
Humor
Z
Miscellaneous Groups of Motifs
| Thompson reference | Description ▲ |
|---|---|
| M415 | Irrevocable curse. Penzer VI 103 n. 1, 162 n. 1; Irish myth: Cross; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M11 | Irrevocable judgment causes judge to suffer first. Has decreed that no one enter a meeting armed. He forgets to remove his sword. Kills himself. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 353; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| M14 | Irrevocable judgment of king upheld. King leaves laws that must be kept until his death. Years later he has his bones sent back to that land to let people know that he is dead and they are free. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| M10 | Irrevocable judgments. |
| M12 | Irrevocable sentence carried out even when innocence is proved. A knight condemned for murdering his comrade is met by the latter on the way to the gallows. A centurion leads them to the emperor, who condemns all three to death: first because he has been sentenced; second for causing by his absence the conviction of his comrade; third for delay in the execution. Oesterley No. 140; Herbert III 208. |
| J1475 | Is ready to go. A peddler scolds the dog who is waiting and tells him to get ready to go with him. The dog replies that he has nothing to carry, that it is the peddler who is late. Wienert FFC LVI 73 (ET 379), 125 (ST 343). |
| J2272.2 | Is today's sun the same as yesterday's? India: Thompson-Balys. |
| H607.4 | Is town too full of anchorites? Saint entering holy town is sent cup full to brim of milk by its worldly-minded fakirs that he may know the town can hold no more anchorites. Saint floats a flower on milk and returns cup. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F85 | Ishtar unveiled. Goddess going to lower world passes through seven gates, at each of which she is divested of a garment till she is entirely unclothed. Babylonian: Spence 130. |
| F735.0.3 | Island appears only at certain times. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D632.1 | Island canoe. An island that becomes a canoe at will. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 275 n. 14. |
| D1524.4 | Island canoe. Magic island acts as canoe or boat. (Cf. D936, D1122.) N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 275 n. 14. |
| F731.1 | Island covered with gold. Breton: Sébillot Incidents s.v. "оle"; India: Thompson-Balys, Penzer VII 15 n. 3, 16ff. |
| F731 | Island covered with treasure. |
| D2153.1.1 | Island created by magic. Eskimo (Ungava): Turner RBAE XI 264. |
| A955.2 | Island created by shooting arrow. (Cf. D936, D1092.)—Greek: Pauly-Wissowa s.v. "Anaphe" 2060, Apollonius Rhodius IV 1709ff. |
| A955.8 | Island fished-up by demigod (hero). Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 61, 227, 308; Tonga: Beckwith Myth 369, Gifford 15, 20; Maori: Clark 48ff.; Marquesas: Handy 103; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (x-G. 13/52). |
| F162.1.2.5 | Island in otherworld garden inhabited half by dead and half by living. Patch PMLA XXXIII 620 n. 65. |
| F743 | Island inhabited by only one species. |
| F743.2 | Island inhabited only be sheep. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F743.1 | Island inhabited only by birds. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| D936.1 | Island made by magic. Greek: Pauly-Wissowa s.v. "Anaphe". |
| D2136.6 | Island magically transported. (Cf. D936.) Irish myth: Cross; Tuamotu: Stimson MS (z-G. 3/1122, 1146, T-G. 3/912, z-G 13/499). |
| F732.2 | Island of aloes. *Chauvin VII 22 No. 373E n. 7. |
| F731.5 | Island of amber (glass). Krappe Speculum XVIII (1943) 303—322. |
| F732.3 | Island of camphor. *Chauvin VII 11 No. 373B n. 2; Penzer III 260 n. 1. |
| F732.1 | Island of ebony. Arabian: Burton Nights I 116. |
| F162.0.1.1 | Island of glass in otherworld. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F731.6 | Island of pearls. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F732 | Island of rare wood. |
| E481.2.0.1 | Island of the dead. *Meyer Der irische Totengott und die Toteninsel (Stzb. d. preussischen Akad. d. Wissenschaften XXXII [1919] 537); *Krappe Balor 102; Irish myth: *Cross; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 72. |
| F111.2.1 | Island of Tir Tairngire (Land of Promise) cannot be reached in boat made of "dead soft skins of animals." Irish myth: Cross. |
| A955.4 | Island plowed out by goddess. (See A951.). |
| F735.0.2 | Island rises once every seven years. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F735.0.1 | Island rises up in river. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F735 | Island rises up in sea. Fb "ø" III 1159b. |
| Q552.2.3.2.3 | Island sinks for man's offense to saint. (Cf. Q227.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F944.3 | Island sinks into sea. Tonga: Gifford 185. |
| C984.8 | Island split apart for broken tabu. Tahiti: Beckwith Myth 468. |
| F736.1 | Island supported on four feet. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F736.1.1 | Island supported on seven feet. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F744 | Island surrounded by wall of fire; water prevents it from being consumed. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1771.5 | Island thought to be large dog. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 448. |
| F736 | Island with extraordinary support. |
| F745 | Island with nightly noise of drums. *Chauvin VII 8 No. 373A n. 1. |
| F731.3 | Island with rampart of gold and palisade of silver. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| A955.1 | Islands as deity's stepping-stones. (Cf. A901.)—Greek: Fox 250. |
| A955.0.1 | Islands created by order of deity. Marquesas: Handy 122f.; Marshall Is.: Davenport 221. |
| A955.5 | Islands from cow and calf transformed by evil eye of one-eyed god. Irish myth: Cross. |
| A955.6 | Islands from stones cast by giantess. (Cf. A901, A963.5.)—Irish myth: Cross. |
| A955.10 | Islands from transformed object or person. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 347; Tahiti: Henry 129, 346; Marshall Is.: Davenport 222; Tonga: Gifford 24, 68, 179; Marquesas: Handy 44. |
| A955.7 | Islands from webs woven by primeval spiders. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A671.2.4.2 | Islands in sea of fire in hell. Irish myth: Cross. |
| F741 | Islands of extraordinary color. Green, white, etc. Chauvin V 264 No. 154. |
| A692 | Islands of the blest. Irish myth: Cross.—Greek: Fox 147, Grote I 62, Güntert Kalypso 81; Gaster Oldest Stories 50.—Oceanic: Kruyt Het Animisme 368ff.; Landman Kiwai Papuans 12; Lévy-Bruhl L'âme primitive 382ff. |
| A955.11 | Islands originally form continent, later separated. Tahiti: Beckwith Myth 468; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 216f., 230, 328; Marquesas: Handy 112; Tonga: Gifford 81; Easter Is.: Métraux Ethnology 389. |
| P3 | Issue of marriage of brother and sister of highest chiefly rank is a god. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 521. |
| N118 | Issues left to fate (luck). |
| J1453 | It's better to fight in the shade. Soldier tells captain that the enemy are so numerous that their arrows darken the sun. Captain: "Good, it will be more comfortable fighting in the shade." Italian Novella: *Rotunda. |
| F787.3 | Ivory bed. Jewish: Neuman. |
| J512.13 | Jackal accidentally made king but joins other jackals in howling at night. Killed. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J681.1.1 | Jackal and leopard tie tails together for mutual protection. Frightened, they run apart and injure each other. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2493.11.3.1 | Jackal and tiger as business partners. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B147.1.2.4 | Jackal as beast of ill-omen. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K2061.11 | Jackal as nurse for leopard cubs eats their food. Chased by leopard. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K1961.1.5.1 | Jackal as sham saint. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1117.1 | Jackal as trickster. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2218.2 | Jackal carries sun in bag on back; burns his back black. (Cf. A721.1, A2356.3.2.)—Hottentot: Bleek 67 No. 29. |
| K171.0.2 | Jackal cheats other animals of elephant they have killed together. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J873.1 | Jackal covers up his inability to cross stream by saying he is looking for shallowest part. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q331.2.2 | Jackal demands to be praised as god: runs with pack of hounds. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1022.1.1 | Jackal eating into elephant's dead body becomes a prisoner when it dries up; is released when storm moistens hide. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 1131. |
| K565.2 | Jackal entrapped in elephant's carcass tells passing God to show his magic power by making it rain. Elephant's hide swells; jackal escapes. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K547.4 | Jackal escapes by telling farmer he is jackal king and will call upon his subjects. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J953.14 | Jackal falls into dye vat, tries to pose as peacock: detected. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K815.16 | Jackal feigns holiness but seizes worshipping rats. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 291. |
| W116.8 | Jackal forces all animals who come to drink to praise him like a king. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| B142.2.1 | Jackal gives warning. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K563.1 | Jackal in tiger's house has permission to sit with tail hanging down between bamboo stems. Enlarges gap thus made and escapes. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1973 | Jackal inside carcass of bullock makes people think his voice is God's. Demands gifts. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| B563.4.1.2 | Jackal leads lost men out of wilderness. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| K361.1 | Jackal ordered to take meat to lion's family takes it to his own. Africa (Hottentot): Bleek 1 No. 1, 5 No. 3, (Kaffir): Theal 92, 186. |
| K1032.1 | Jackal persuaded to come to fireplace for food. Burns self. (Cf. K955.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K2037 | Jackal persuades deer to steal from farmer, then informs farmer who catches deer. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A2284.6 | Jackal persuades hyena to jump and break foot. Latter has short left hind foot. (Cf. A2375.2.5.)—Hottentot: Bleek 14 No. 14. |
| K551.17.2 | Jackal persuades woman to untie his legs so that he may get a drink. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1036.1.1 | Jackal puts head in anus of sham-dead camel: caught and punished. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J423.1 | Jackal realizes that the partridge was too clever for him and leaves. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K233.5 | Jackal refuses payment for being carried. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| B375.10 | Jackal released: grateful. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B557.13 | Jackal rides on fox. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| L476 | Jackal singing about his deeds falls down from tree and is eaten by alligator. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K1084.1.1 | Jackal tells tales so as to get buffalo and tiger to kill each other; feeds on the meat. India: Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 823. |
| J2132.3.1 | Jackal ties captive crow to his tail. Crow pecks self loose and injures jackal's tail. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J2413.8 | Jackal tries to roar like lion at elephant. Is killed. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1508.3 | Jackal-tooth as cure for madness. (Cf. D1011.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K952.1.1 | Jackal, swallowed by elephant so it can drink water in his belly, eats elephant's liver and kills him. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| J2131.5.6 | Jackal's head caught in pot of blue dye. Animals make him king, but detect him from his cry and turn him out. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| P421.1 | Jackals as judges. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| J1791.3.4 | Jackals jump into well after drums and are killed. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K811.2 | Jackals persuaded to enter pit to escape coming storm. Killed. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B242.1.6 | Jackdaw king of birds. Wienert FFC LVI 47. |
| J1849.2 | Jackdaw tries to swallow sparks from glowworm. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A751.10.2 | Jacob as man in the moon. Jewish: Neuman. |
| B15.1.2.1.3 | Jaguar with two heads. S. A. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 155. |
| P555.2.1.2 | Jawbone cut from slain opponent. Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 422. |
| D1472.1.24.2 | Jawbone of ass supplies water. (Cf. D1013.) Jewish: Neuman. |
| A2241.6 | Jay borrows cuckoo's skin. (Cf. A2313.1.)—*Type 235. |
| A2236.7 | Jay carries sulphur to devil in hell: must be quiet at noon. North Carolina: Brown Collection I 633. |
| J951.2 | Jay in peacock's (pigeon's) skin unmasked. Type 244; Wienert FFC LVI 47, 57 (ET 61, 173), *93 (ST 66, 67, 68); Halm Aesop Nos. 200, 201, 201b; Jacobs Aesop 205 No. 21; Scala Celi 80b No. 461; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| N342.3 | Jealous and overhasty man kills his rescuing twin brother. *Type 303; Italian: Basile Pentamerone I No. 7; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S322.3.1 | Jealous co-wife demands murder of woman's children. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| S322.3 | Jealous co-wife kills woman's children. (Cf. K2222.) India: *Thompson-Balys; Africa (Basuto): Jacottet 246 No. 36, (Zulu): Callaway 237. |
| D665.3 | Jealous co-wife transforms the other. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S322.3.2 | Jealous concubine plots against real wife's daughter. Chinese: Graham. |
| K2141 | Jealous courtiers shake king lion's confidence in his councillor, the virtuous jackal, by accusing the jackal of stealing the lion's food. *Chauvin II 102 No. 64; B[ö]dker Exempler 303 No. 74. |
| S11.2 | Jealous father sends son to upper world on stretching tree. N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 332 n. 199; Africa (Benga): Nassau 176 No. 23. |
| S11.4.1 | Jealous father vows to kill daughter's suitors. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| W181.4 | Jealous fox betrays wolf to peasant and then appropriates wolf's cave and food. Peasant kills him in a few days. Wienert FFC LVI 58 (ET 194), 132, 139 (ST 383, 453). |
| Q587 | Jealous husband kills bird which wife falsely says she has been listening to. She has really been conversing with her lover. (Laüstic.) *Warncke Lais der Marie de France cxxvi. |
| N348 | Jealous husband kills innocent wife. Suspicions aroused when villain leaves his handkerchief in her room. (Othello.) Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T257.5 | Jealous husband kills nightingale which his wife gets up to hear. Herbert III 201; Oesterley No. 121. |
| T257.8 | Jealous husband objects to wife's enjoyment of intercourse: thinks she has had previous experience. Nouvelles Récréations No. 39. |
| T257.9 | Jealous husband spends all his earnings as skillful smith bribing courtiers not to talk to his wife, and at last locks her up in hut in the forest. Icelandic: FSS 14—18, XCVIII, Boberg. |
| K863.1 | Jealous husband tricks blind poet into slaying wife's lover with infallible spear. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T257.6 | Jealous king causes massacre of handsome young captives. Jewish: Neuman. |
| K2129.1 | Jealous monk falsely accuses novice of laziness. Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 792. |
| S322.2 | Jealous mother casts daughter forth. (Cf. S12.) *Type 709; Africa (Angola): Chatelain 30 No. 1. |
| S322.6 | Jealous mother-in-law and sisters cast woman's children forth. Roberts 132; Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K2115.0.1 | Jealous queens tell child-bearing queen to put her head in the hole at the bottom of grain-bin, so that she fails to see what she delivers. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| K2220.0.1 | Jealous rivals prevail on person to break tabu (prohibition). Type 425; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| M437.2 | Jealous sisters curse the child one of them may have by the god Thor, so that it never will grow nor thrive. Icelandic: *Boberg. |
| T257.2.2 | Jealous wife (mistress) transforms rival to hound. (Cf. B182.1.0.2.) Irish myth: *Cross. |
| S463 | Jealous wife has merchant turn out queen and son, whom he had befriended and taken into his home. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| A164.7 | Jealous wife of god. India. Thompson-Balys. |
| T257 | Jealous wife or husband. Irish myth: *Cross; Italian Novella: Rotunda; Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| K832.1 | Jealous wife tells sister to look below: pushes her over cliff. Africa (Kaffir): Theal 153. |
| T257.11 | Jealous wife ties husband to her so that he cannot get away to meet another woman. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| E692.4 | Jealous woman reborn as chilly. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| S160.2 | Jealous women mutilate her who is most attractive to men. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T257.2 | Jealousy of rival wives. Penzer III 99; Irish myth: *Cross; India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| W181.6 | Jealousy of Venus in the love of Psyche and Cupid. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| Q301 | Jealousy punished. (Cf. W181.) Penzer III 177f.; Missouri French: Carrière; Spanish Exempla: Keller; Italian Novella: *Rotunda; Jewish: Neuman; India: Thompson-Balys; Africa (Konnoh): Willans 139. |
| W181 | Jealousy. Irish myth: *Cross; Missouri French: Carrière; Icelandic: *Boberg; Spanish: Espinosa Jr. Nos. 142—45. |
| F1083.0.1.3 | Jerusalem suspended in air. Jewish: Neuman. |
| K1839.4 | Jester disguises as prince. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| U67 | Jester takes cow and tells king people have plenty of milk, for "he who is warm thinks everyone else is." India: Thompson-Balys. |
| Q387 | Jesting punished. |
| V411.8 | Jesus appears to St. Martin when he gives his cloak to beggar. Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| A2287 | Jesus causes animal characteristics. (Cf. A2221, A2231.) |
| A2287.1.1 | Jesus drives evil spirits into hogs: hence "toes" on back of foreleg. (Cf. A2371.2.2.)—Dh II 82. |
| A2287.1 | Jesus drives evil spirits into hogs: hence short snouts. (Cf. A2335.4.1.)—Dh II 81.—Finnish: Aarne FFC VIII 12 No. 66. |
| V211.2.1.2.1 | Jesus had "dark hair and a long red beard". Irish myth: Cross. |
| N352.2 | Jewel (garment) carried off by bird from bather. Clothes have been left on bank of stream. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| D1561.1.10 | Jewel brings good luck. (Cf. D1071.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1364.32 | Jewel causes magic sleep. (Cf. D1071.) Jewish: Neuman. |
| N534.8 | Jewel found accidentally on a bought donkey's neck. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| D1331.1.5 | Jewel gives magic sight. (Cf. D1071.) |
| D1521.5 | Jewel gives miraculous speed. (Cf. D1071.) |
| K2104 | Jewel presented to king brings false accusation of theft. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| B548.6 | Jewel recovered from sea by helpful parrot. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1651.13 | Jewel responds to owner's voice. (Cf. D1070.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F789.2.1 | Jeweled candlestick. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F828.1 | Jeweled crown suspended in air over king's head. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F789.3.1 | Jeweled curtain. Jewish: Neuman. |
| F1034.3.4 | Jewell hidden in wound cut in thigh. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F165.3.2 | Jewelled walls in otherworld dwelling. Irish myth: Cross; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| D1641.14 | Jewelry intended by groom for prospective bride strangely disappears and a slip of paper alone is left in box. (Cf. D1071.) India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1314.8 | Jewels aid in search for treasure. (Cf. D1071.)—*Norlind Skattsägner 29. |
| Q111.7 | Jewels as reward. Jewish: Neuman; India: *Thompson-Balys; Chinese: Graham. |
| V12.2 | Jewels as sacrifice to sea. (Cf. V11.2.) *Penzer II 72 n. 1. |
| J1655.1 | Jewels concealed in cowdung cakes. India: *Thompson-Balys. |
| D1454.1.2 | Jewels from hair. *Type 403; Köhler-Bolte I 126; *Penzer VIII 59 n. 3; *BP I 100 n. 1; Italian Novella: Rotunda; India: Thompson-Balys. |
| D1454.4.2 | Jewels from tears. Malone PMLA XLIII 405.—Finnish: Kalevala rune 41; Irish myth: *Cross; India: *Thompson-Balys; Jewish: Neuman; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 329 n. 190b. |
| F162.2.10 | Jewels in streams of otherworld. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T265 | Jewels of Cornelia. She shows her children as her jewels. Pauli (ed. Bolte) No. 141. |
| A156.1 | Jewels of the gods. Icel.: MacCulloch Eddic 120ff., 140ff.; Jewish: Neuman. |
| D1071.0.1 | Jewels produced by magic. *Type 403.—Irish myth: *Cross; India: Thompson-Balys; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 329 nn. 190, 190a, 190b. |
| J2336 | Jewess makes parents believe that she is to give birth to the Messiah. She bears a girl. *Wesselski Mönchslatein 65 No. 53; *Wesselski Bebel I 213 No. 104; Lithuanian: Balys Index No. *1864; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| T580.1 | Jewess must entreat Virgin before she can bear her child. Irish myth: Cross. |
| V71.1 | Jewish automaton will not work on Saturday. *Dickson 212 n. 140. |
| V363.1 | Jewish child resurrected (saved by power of Virgin Mary) after being burned to ashes for eating consecrated bread in Christian church. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| V363 | Jewish child thrown into oven by father for taking eucharist. Preserved by Virgin Mary. *Ward II 601; Irish myth: Cross (V35.1.0.1); Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| V365 | Jewish traditions concerning non-Jews. Jewish: *Neuman. |
| V35.1 | Jews bribe woman to steal host for them: miraculous manifestations. Scala Celi 64a No. 350. |
| M211.4 | Jews must repay devil's help by giving tribute of persons each year. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 1867D*. |
| V343 | Jews protesting against marriage of Jewess and Christian are struck dumb. Wesselski Mönchslatein 52 No. 62. |
| P715.1 | Jews. **Goebel Jüdische Motive in märchenhafte Erzählungsgut (Gleiwitz, 1932) 281—288; Jewish: *Neuman. |
| G307.1.1 | Jinn always appears out of strong wind. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G307.2.1 | Jinn can take any human form he chooses. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G512.3.4 | Jinn falls into cauldron of boiling oil, thinking it is food. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G307.3 | Jinn kills whoever tries to occupy house he has chosen to live in. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G307.2.2 | Jinn unseen by anyone except person(s) he wishes should see him. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| G307 | Jinn. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F499.3.2 | Jinns entitled to share in fruits of the earth. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F499.3.3 | Jinns frequent graveyards, ruined houses, or an altar of sacrifice. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F499.3.1 | Jinns have no bones in their arms: they have only four fingers and no thumbs. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F499.3 | Jinns. |
| A37 | Joint creators. |
| R111.7 | Joint rescuers quarrel over rescued princess. Type 653; India: Thompson-Balys; Africa (Konde): Gemuseus und Berger ZsES XXIII 1ff., (Tanga): Nassau JAFL XXVIII 30ff. No. 5, (Vai): Ellis 200f. No. 18. |
| B765.7 | Jointed snake can join its segments when it is broken into pieces. Chinese: Werner 393; U.S.: Baughman. |
| N384.11 | Joker playing dead killed. Lithuanian: Balys Index No. 3443A, Legends Nos. 864f. |
| X252 | Jokes about barbers. Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| X230 | Jokes about butchers. |
| X240 | Jokes about cobblers (shoemakers). |
| X584 | Jokes about hunters. |
| X210 | Jokes about millers. (Cf. P443.) |
| X250 | Jokes about other artisans and tradesmen. |
| X220 | Jokes about tailors. (Cf. P441.) |
| X583 | Jokes about travelers. U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X530 | Jokes concerning beggars. |
| X610 | Jokes concerning Jews. |
| X650 | Jokes concerning other races or nations. |
| X520 | Jokes concerning prostitutes. |
| X510 | Jokes concerning usurers. |
| X680 | Jokes concerning various cities. |
| X760 | Jokes on courtship. |
| X372 | Jokes on doctors. U.S.: Baughman; Italian Novella: Rotunda. |
| X253 | Jokes on fishermen. Nouvelles Récréations. |
| X461 | Jokes on fortune-tellers. |
| X551 | Jokes on freemasons. *Fb "frimurer" I 371b; *Hdwb. d. Abergl. III 23ff. |
| X310 | Jokes on lawyers. (Cf. P422.) |
| X540 | Jokes on madmen. Irish myth: Cross. |
| X330 | Jokes on magistrates. (Cf. P421.) |
| X457 | Jokes on monks. |
| X750 | Jokes on old maids. *Types 1475—1499; Hdwb. d. Abergl. I 334 s.v. "Alte Jungfer". |
| X459 | Jokes on parsons—miscellaneous. England, U.S.: *Baughman. |
| X410 | Jokes on parsons. *Types 1725—1824; **Kristensen Vore Fædres Kirketjeneste (Aarhus, 1899); *Fb "præst" II 884a; West Indies: Flowers 583. |
| X370 | Jokes on scholars. |
| X550 | Jokes on secret societies. |
| X350 | Jokes on teachers. |
| X251 | Jokes on weavers. (Cf. P445.) *Chauvin VIII 105 No. 81 n. 2. |
| F911.4 | Jonah. Fish (or water monster) swallows a man. *Frazer Old Testament III 82; *H. Schmidt Jona 127f.; *Wesselski Märchen 213 No. 18; Clouston Tales I 403ff.—Irish myth: *Cross; French Canadian: Barbeau JAFL XXIX 11; Italian: Basile Pentamerone V No. 8, Rotunda; Jewish: bin Gorion Born Judas IV 27, 275, *Neuman; Babylonian: Spence 87; India: *Thompson-Balys, *Penzer II 193, VI 154 n. 3, Keith 173; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera II 261; Oceanic (Cook Group, Melanesia, Indonesia): Dixon 69, De Vries's list No. 211; Hawaii: Beckwith Myth 443; Marquesas: Handy 137; S. A. Indian (Bakairi): Alexander Lat. Am. 313. |
| N733.3 | Joseph and his brethren. Elder brothers unwittingly come to maltreated youngest in great need. Eventual recognition. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| V254.6 | Joseph and Mary threaten to leave heaven when the man who has always prayed to them is refused admittance. *Type 805*. |
| A751.10.1 | Joshua as man in the moon. Jewish: Neuman. |
| Z71.5.2 | Journey beyond seven seas. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F114 | Journey inside the earth. Chinese: Graham. |
| E750.3 | Journey of soul to world of dead on reindeer. Siberian: Holmberg Siberian 485. |
| F127 | Journey to animal kingdom. Usually underground. India: *Thompson-Balys; Japanese: Ikeda; Eskimo (Mackenzie area): Jenness 154; N. A. Indian: *Thompson Tales 348 nn. 252, 253. |
| F111 | Journey to earthly paradise. Land of happiness. (Cf. F132.1.) **Nutt in Meyer Voyage of Bran I 105ff.; Patch *Other World 381 s.v. "paradise"; *Graf La leggenda del paradiso terrestre (Torino, 1878); *BP IV 269 n. 1; Gaster Oldest Stories 48; Norlind Skattsägner 88ff.; Hartland Science 194, 199, 202; *Loomis White Magic 116.—Irish myth: *Cross; English: Wells 145 (Parthenope of Blois); *Celtic: K. Zimmer Brendans Meerfahrt (Zeitschrift für deutsche Altertum XXXIII [1889] 129—220, 257—338); Icelandic: Boberg; Jewish: *Neuman; Hindu: Tawney I 525; Chinese: Giles 8ff., 397ff. |
| F11 | Journey to heaven (upper-world paradise). Types 800—809; K. Kahler Heaven and Hell in Comparative Religion (New York, 1923).—Irish myth: *Cross; Icelandic: Hartland Science 193; Jewish: *Neuman; Arabian: Burton Nights II 197n.; India: *Thompson-Balys; Buddhist myth: Malalasekera I 606, II 294; Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 183; Korean: Zong in-Sob 171; Melanesia: Wheeler 21f., Codrington II 1, Ker 7; N. A. Indian (Thompson River): Teit MAFLS XI 53 No. 34; S. A. Indian (Chiriguano): Métraux RMLP XXXIII 177. |
| F11.1 | Journey to heaven in trance. Hartland Science 189; Spanish Exempla: Keller. |
| F12.4 | Journey to heaven to see Buddha. Chinese: Eberhard FFC CXX 183. |
| F81.3 | Journey to hell to circumcize child. Jewish: bin Gorion Born Judas VI 63ff., 308. |
| F81.2 | Journey to hell to recover devil's contract. Type 756B; *Andrejev FFC LXIX 71ff. |
| F81.4 | Journey to hell to retrieve soul of mother. Irish myth: Cross. |
| T137.6 | Journey to husband's home accompanied by attendants. India: Thompson-Balys. |
| F112.0.1.1 | Journey to island inhabited by only one (beautiful) woman. Irish myth: *Cross. |
| F111.1 | Journey to Isle of Laughter. Irish myth: *Cross. |
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